Italian Green Rice Recipe

pEMItalian Green Rice Recipe from the diabetic recipe collection at InformationAboutDiabetes.com/emIngredients: /pP1 lb fresh spinach2 tbsp olive oil2 1/4 cup chicken broth, (fat-free) divided use1/4 cup onion, finely chopped1/4 cup celery, finely chopped1 tsp salt, or to taste1/8 tsp ground white pepper1 1/2 cup rice/pPreparation: PWash the sand from the spinach. Discard the stems and place the leaves ina food processor. Chop in batches and set aside. Heat the oil and 1/4 cupchicken stock in a medium saucepan. Add onion, celery, salt and pepper.Cook briefly, stirring. Raise the heat, and add thespinach. Cook untilspinach begines to relese its own liquid. Stir if necessary. With the heatstill on high, add 2 cups of chicken stock (or water). Reduce the heat andcover. Continue to cooking 20 minutes. Check to see if the rice is done orneeds more liquid. To serve, place on an attractive serving platter.Arrange slices of turkey on top. Source: The San Diego Union Food Section,Sept 1, 1994 Brought to you and yours via Nancy O'Brion and herMeal-Master. /pPSTRONGServes: 6 /strong/pItalian Green Rice Recipe provided for you by InformationAboutDiabetes.comH2Is this Italian Green Rice Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?/h2PThis Italian Green Rice recipe is part of our collection of tasty diabetic Rice recipes. Because we don`t know your unique health problems the guidelines your nutritionalist has provided, we cannot say for sure that this Italian Green Rice recipe is appropriate for you. Even taking that into account, as the recipe author designated it as `diabetic` it hopefully suggests that it at least meets the minimum consideration for the tag `diabetic friendly`, being low fat and low carb and should be better for you than a standard recipe. Still, this Italian Green Rice recipe should only be used In the event that you understand your own condition and are happy that the recipe contents are acceptable for you. /pSTRONGItalian Green Rice Recipe - Important Disclaimer/strongPThis Italian Green Rice Recipe is one from our STRONGdiabetic Rice recipes/strong section. Please understand, it would be unthinkable for us to validate every one of the EMdiabetic Rice recipes/em to make sure that they are totally modified for diabetes sufferers. There are over 2000 diabetic recipes listed, and to validate each recipe at one each day would occupy us for 290 weeks. We strongly urge you to check the ingredients to confirm that they comply with the diabetes nutritional guidelines your doctor has offered you. In the event that you feel that this Italian Green Rice recipe is unsuitable for sufferers of diabetes, please let us know we will withdraw the recipe concerned from our recipe site. /p

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